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The Shadow Fae King
An Ancient Prophecy, Blood Bargain Fae RomantasyBy Elowen Ashe
Length8h 12m
About this audiobook
Three years ago she made a bargain with a hedge-spirit that she had no right to make.
The memory surfaces every time Mirabel pushes through the back gate before dawn, every time her boots crush the frost-stiffened grass, every time the silver streak in her hair catches the last starlight.
She was seventeen, desperate and stupid. Theo had coughed blood for the first time, and she promised the spirit her voice in exchange for a single stem of moon-bloom. It took the bargain and then laughed at her, because the fae cannot lie but they can leave out the parts that matter.
The moon-bloom was already dead when she picked it. She had not read the fine print. The spirit had never said the flower would be alive.
Now she slips through the gap in the hawthorn hedge, fingers finding the notch where generations of Ashworth women have worn a handhold. The cottage is dark behind her, Nan's candle not yet lit, Theo asleep with the quilt to his chin. He has maybe four good hours before the rattle starts again.
Caspian is the one who can end it, and Caspian's price is a court appearance, a title she does not want and a set of rules she keeps breaking because nobody will explain them.
What follows: the lie she built her life on, a door she swore she would never open, a bargain cut on the heath, a thorn in her side, a dance of unspoken rules, an isle of lost things, the weight of silver censure, and a friend in the dark who turns out to be arming the other side.
*Barnaby had smuggled iron knives. He'd made deals with Rowena. He'd lied to her face, told her he was protecting her.*
*Full court colours. Let them see we aren't afraid.*
Fae fantasy romance with a mortal woman who bargained badly at seventeen, a brother whose lungs set every deadline in the book, a king whose court punishes ignorance as though it were insolence, explicit scenes, and a guaranteed happy ending.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Fantasy
Length8 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - The Lie I Built My Life On
2Chapter 2 - The Door I Swore I’d Never Open
3Chapter 3 - A Bargain Cut on the Heart’s Edge
4Chapter 4 - The Thorn in My Side
5Chapter 5 - The Dance of Unspoken Rules
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6Chapter 6 - The Isle of Lost Things
7Chapter 7 - The Weight of Silver Centuries
8Chapter 8 - A Friend in the Dark
9Chapter 9 - The Path of Silver and Stone
10Chapter 10 - The Curse of a Frozen Heart
11Chapter 11 - The Seeds of Treachery
12Chapter 12 - The Masquerade of Truth
13Chapter 13 - The Assassin’s Thorn
14Chapter 14 - The Blood of Ashworth
15Chapter 15 - The Lessons of Shadow and Light
16Chapter 16 - The Rival’s Smile
17Chapter 17 - The Path to the Shadow Court
18Chapter 18 - The Betrayer Revealed
19Chapter 19 - The Tower of First Light
20Chapter 20 - The Cage of Silver and Lies
21Chapter 21 - The Heart’s Last Stand
22Chapter 22 - The Price of Love
23Chapter 23 - The Light in Silvered Eyes
24Chapter 24 - The Winter Throne
25Epilogue
26The End
27About the Author
28Also by Elowen Ashe
29Acknowledgements
30A Note from the Author
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